Device for exhibiting hats, bonnets, and the like.



JN0. 845,569. PATENTE)l FEB'. ze, 1907.

F. W. NUNN.

'DEVICE FOR EXHIBITING HATS, BONNLTS, AND THB LIKB.--

' APPLICATION FILED MAB.8,.1906.

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NUNN, OF GUILDFORD,

NEW SOUTH WALES,

AUSTRALIA. DEVICE FOR EXHIBITING HATS, BONNETS, AND THE LIKE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application led March 8, 1906. Serial No. 304,916.

T0 @ZZ whom t may con/cern:

Be it known that I, FREDERICK WILLIAM N UNN, a subject of the King of Great Britain and Ireland, residing at Guildford, in the State of New South lVales, in the Commonwealth of Australia, have invented a new and useful Device for Exhibiting Hats, Bonnets, and the Like, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to an adjustable device for displaying hats, bonnets, and the like in shop-windows and show-rooms.

The object of the invention is to provide a device for this purpose on which the article to be displayed can be quickly and iirmly fastened and also readily removed, while the device can be easily and quickly changed om an upright to an inverted position or placed at any angle in order to show the article to its best advantage, according to its position in a show-room or shop-window.

My device consists mainly of a springframe constructed so as to grip the hat firmly inside the crown. This frame, which is made of a double strand of wire and held together at suitable points by solder, binding-wire, or in any suitable manner, forms at the lower part a double spring-loop, which iit on a liat plate or disk, one on either side. This plate or disk is provided with two pins projecting at both sides. These pins are placed obliquely one above the other, so that the upper pin will be inside and the lower one outside the wire loop, which arrangement permits the frame to be placed in any desired position or angle, as through its own weight the loop will be firmly caught j and held between the pins. The plate or l disk carrying the frame is mounted on a socket which can be placed on any ordinary upright stand or Wall-bracket; but in order that my invention may be properly understood I will now refer to the drawings accompanying and forming part of this complete specification, in'which- Figure l is a side elevation of the complete device mounted on a wall-bracket. Fig. 2 is a front elevation, and Fig. 3 is a plan, of the same. Fig. 4 is a front elevation of the spring-frame. Fig. 5 is a side elevation of the supporting-plate and'socket. Fig. 6 is a front elevation of same.

The independent half-hoops a and a, preferably made of steel wire, together with the arc-shaped radial wires b and b, form the frame on which the hat, bonnet, or the like is to be mounted. The wires c and c, connected to the half-hoops a and a', respectively, form at their lower end the spring-loop d, and being double are slipped over a plate or disk e, provided with the projecting pins f and f and attached to a socket g, which socket in its turn may be mounted on a wall-bracket h, as shown in the drawings, or on any other suitable stand.

In order to fasten a hat or other article onto the frame, the spring-loop d is slightly compressed, thereby bringing the half-hoops a and a suliiciently close together for inserting them into the crown of the hat, and when the spring is released these half-hoops a and a will hold the hat firmly in place. By moving the spring-loop d round between the pins the hat may then be given any desired position, while the socket allows the whole to be turned round or to be taken off entirely in order to show the hat to a customer.

I do not confine myself to the method of construction of the spring-frame and the carrying plate or disk as shown in the drawings.

What I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is*

1. A device ofthe class described, comprising a frame for engaging the interior of a hat, a socket-piece having a plate provided with pins projecting upon opposite sides thereof,-

one of said pins being above and in advance or the other, and loops connected with the frame and adapted to engage between the pins on opposite sides of the plate.

2. A device of the class described, comprising a frame composed of a plurality of sections for engaging the interior of a hat, a socket-piece having a plate provided with pins projecting upon opposite sides thereof, and a loop connected with each section, and adapted to engage between the pins on the adjacent side ofthe plate.

3. A device of the class described, comprs- Y In testimony whereof I affix my signature ing a iframe for engaging the nterorcpfda ha in presence of two witnesses. a soc {et-piece having a' ate rovi e wit Y T pins projecting upon opgostepsides thereof, FREDERICK WILLIAM MEN 5 and loops connected with the frame and i Witnesses:

adapted to engage between the pins on oppo- WALTER SIGMONs, site sides of the plate. i T. C. ALLEN. 

